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objected to withholding the intercepted messages from Kim-mel and Short, he was
relieved of his command. See Toland, pp. 57 60.
52 Kimmel, pp. 2,3.
53 The man who personally delivered the final message to FDR in the White
House was Captain Beardall, the President s Naval Attaché. According to
Beardall, FDR read the intercept and, in spite of the 1 P.M. deadline, showed
no alarm. (See Hearings on Pearl Harbor Attack, Part 11, p. 5287 ff. as cited by
Stinnett, p. 233.) This was a foretaste of President Bush s lack of alarm when
he received information that the second plane had crashed into the Twin
Towers on 9/11.
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However, even then he still had 1½ hours before the attack. He
could have picked up the telephone and spoken to the Hawaii
commanders directly. He could have used any one of several mili-
tary radio systems designed for exactly such kinds of urgent
communications, but he did none of those things. According to
witnesses, he read and re-read the intercept and shuffled the paper
from one side of his desk to the other while another half hour
ticked away. Then, at 11:52, he finally sent a warning to the
commanders at Pearl Harbor. The method? It was a commercial
telegram sent through Western Union! It arrived six hours after the
attack!54
An Act Of Statesmanship
For many years after World War II, Roosevelt s admirers denied
that neither he nor anyone in his administration had prior knowl-
edge; but the evidence now is so clear that he even facilitated the
attack, no one tries to deny it anymore. The new line of defense is
that he was justified in doing so. It was an act of great statesman-
ship, you see, because, otherwise, Europe would have been overrun
by Hitler and, eventually, even the United States might have been
attacked. Furthermore, we had a moral obligation to come to the
aid of our British and French brethren.55
It took great courage and wisdom, they say, for Roosevelt to
foresee this and confront totalitarianism before it became stronger.
The American people were too stupid to realize how important it
was. They were too ignorant to understand. They were too isola-
tionist in their thinking to realize they must accept a leadership
role in the affairs of the world. So, what is a collectivist to do? You
can t leave it to the ignorant voters to decide such important
matters. There was no choice but to lie, to deceive the American
people, and ruin the careers of loyal military officers by making
them scapegoats. We had to violate our Constitution and our
laws.56
54 Stinnett, pp. 225 237. Also Toland, pp. 10, 11.
55 That part is true, but it was an individual moral obligation, not a group
obligation. In other words, anyone who felt deeply about this was perfectly free
to go to Europe and volunteer for the British or French armies or to organize a
volunteer American brigade, but no one had the right to use force of law to
conscript others into the American armed services and send them into battle
for that purpose. It is important to note that none of the master planners of
this infamy ever felt a moral obligation to put themselves into combat. That
honor was reserved for others.
56 Unfortunately, it is sometimes necessary to ignore laws in time of war,
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It was statesmanship to kill thousands of Americans in order to
bring the stupid voters to the correct point of view. Don t you see?
The only way to stop totalitarianism in Europe was to establish
totalitarianism in America.
Even Robert Stinnett, the man who found the McCollum memo-
randum, succumbed to this insane argument. In the preface of his
book, he wrote:  As a veteran of the Pacific War, I felt a sense of
outrage as I uncovered secrets that had been hidden from Ameri-
cans for more than fifty years.
But I understood the agonizing dilemma faced by President
Roosevelt. He was forced to find circuitous means to persuade an
isolationist America to join in a fight for freedom. 57
One of the men who made sure that Admiral Kimmel and General
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